Woodworking-Books

The ultimate beginner’s guide! Featuring 15 animal projects with step-by-step instructions from a Scandinavian-style carver and Vesterheim Gold Medalist, this easy method of carving can be accomplished in just one day with just one knife. Softcover.

Carve symbolic romantic lovespoons! Softcover.

This complete overview of wooden Norwegian drinking vessels includes details and images of over 480 pieces. Includes extensive information about the original owners and farms, plus beer brewing, drinking customs, and rural artists. Norwegian text, short English summary, hardcover.

By Harley Refsal. Instructions for carving 20 wonderful characters in the Scandinavian flat-plane style, including trolls and nisse. Softcover.

Features beginner-friendly projects by talented artists ranging from rustic coffee scoops to bread bowls, and jam spreaders! Softcover.

In this book, Harley presents a fascinating overview of this beautiful and enchanting folk art. Discover the rich history of Scandinavian figure carving from the Viking era to the modern day, with photographs and illustrations of medieval decorative pieces. Biographies...

This book shows how to elevate the humble wooden spoon from a utilitarian object to a love token or a work of art! Spoon carving instructor Shirley Adler will get you started making beautiful spoons to keep for yourself or...

Little in size, but big in personality! From the Monk to the Policeman, to the Woodsman‚ acclaimed artist Harley Refsal provides patterns and instructions for carving over 20 delightful characters in wood. There are step-by-step carving and painting instructions for...

Carver by Wayne Barton Includes Barton Capitals and Foliated Alphabet templates never before published, plus a gallery of work. Softcover.

Starting with selecting and splitting your very first log, let Woodcraft show you all the techniques of green woodworking and guide you step-by-step through a series of rewarding projects. Hardcover.

This book provides information about the most important fiddle makers from Telemark, along with pictures of selected instruments from the last 150 years. Includes a catalog with color photos of the collection held by Bø Museum with color photos. Although...

Whether you're a professional woodworker, architect, hobbyist, designer, or one simply captivated by classical design and ornamentation, there is much to discover about this mysterious and enduring leaf. History, designs, how-to-carve instructions, line drawings, and full-cover photographs. Italian, Greek, Scandinavian,...

Step-by-step instructions and patterns for 50 projects. Learn the flat-plane carving style from a master of the art. Includes detailed step-by-step instructions and patterns of both front and side views. Softcover.

For thousands of years, the acanthus leaf as a motif has spread through the realms of architecture, decorative items, furniture, marine carvings, signs, and frames. While this decorative element is ubiquitous, until now, no one has described in writing the...